Chapter Summaries

Mike discovered that Glory Enterprise forced its employees to buy Blessing Candy and pay for meals, then tried to escape Glory City. A church statue nearly ensnared him, but Hu Jiu rescued him and took him to the city's edge to ask what he had encountered.

• Mike found his wife and child working at Glory Enterprise and learned that employees had to buy Blessing Candy and pay monthly meal fees.
• Mike tried to leave with his family, but they and the other employees blocked him, so he drove around Glory City searching for an exit.
• Mike discovered that he could only use his phone within Glory City and eventually ran out of fuel outside a church.
• A voice called Mike a sinner, and the church statue's sacred appearance gave way to a grotesque demon form that filled the city with mist.
• Hu Jiu snapped Mike out of the statue's influence, carried him to the edge of Glory City, and asked what he had encountered.

Hu Jiu investigated the force transforming Glory City’s residents and discovered that a strange light flowed from the church across the city. After freezing the church and revealing cursed writing, he was ordered to stop.

• Mike told Hu Jiu about his ordeal, gave him money to investigate, and asked him to find a way out.
• The smiling residents surrounded Hu Jiu and Mike, accused Mike of being a sinner, and demanded they come to the church for 007 Blessings.
• Mike began to change despite Hu Jiu’s supernatural protection, so Hu Jiu knocked him unconscious and carried him away.
• Hu Jiu expanded his Mirage Ghost Domain and saw that viscous light flowed from the church, bathing Glory City’s residents and gradually strengthening around Mike.
• Hu Jiu returned to the church, froze it, and revealed rows of cursed text as the building began to collapse.
• An angry voice shouted for Hu Jiu to stop.

Hu Jiu defeated Ares, exposed the malevolent ghost hidden inside the church statue, and began interrogating Ares after threatening to strip away the ghosts he controlled. Ares finally agreed to talk, and Hu Jiu prepared to ask his first question.

• Ares confronted Hu Jiu at the church, but Hu Jiu disarmed him and beat him through a wall.
• Ares revealed his name and summoned the malevolent ghost hidden inside the statue, whose appearance killed several nearby residents.
• Hu Jiu pinned Ares to the ground, captured the slow-moving ghost in a sack, and asked about its killing rule.
• When Ares refused to answer, Hu Jiu whipped him and began stripping away the malevolent ghosts inside him.
• Ares panicked at the threat of losing his ghosts and agreed to tell Hu Jiu everything.

Hu Jiu questioned Ares about the statue ghost, Evernight’s leader, and the city’s residents. Ares revealed the leader’s God Completion Plan and Evernight’s methods for controlling its members, while Hu Jiu continued to hold him captive.

• Ares warned Hu Jiu that Evernight’s leader might sense anyone who mentioned him, but Hu Jiu used Nightmare’s Supernatural power to make Ares believe his answers were safe.
• Ares told Hu Jiu that the ghost emerging from the statue killed anyone who looked at it, while the statue’s mist caused mental contamination.
• Ares explained that Evernight’s leader trapped primal-attribute ghosts in statues to purify their killing rules and use the resulting ghosts for the God Completion Plan.
• Ares revealed that the city’s residents were relatives of Evernight’s lower-ranking members who had been remade to be polite and compliant.
• Ares said his own parents lived in Washington and that he sent them money, though he had not visited them in a long time.

Hu Jiu interrogated Ares about the Eternal Night Organization before the leader’s supernatural attack triggered a fierce clash in Glory City. Their powers tore open the barrier between worlds, and Hu Jiu lost consciousness as the breach began.

• Ares told Hu Jiu that Blessing Candy was made from mentally contaminating mist and described how the Eternal Night Organization used it to influence workers and students.
• Ares began listing the Eternal Night leader’s powers, but the dream collapsed before he could reveal more.
• In Glory City, the leader attacked Hu Jiu with holy mist and supernatural commands, while Hu Jiu expanded his Ghost Domains and used his book to strengthen himself.
• Hu Jiu recognized similarities between the leader’s curses and his own methods, while their clashing powers devastated the city and stirred up the ruins beyond it.
• The Eternal Night leader warned that their fight was about to punch a hole in the real world and urged Hu Jiu to help seal it, but Hu Jiu tried to flee.
• A spatial fluctuation swept over Hu Jiu, and his vision went black as the barrier was breached.

Hu Jiu found himself in the Ghost World beneath an enormous Red Moon and explored an abandoned building while searching for a way back. A supernatural hunger overtook him, and he encountered a ragged man who devoured his ghost fire and asked for more.

• Hu Jiu awoke in a blood-red room in the Ghost World, saw the Red Moon and a ruined city, and found that his Ghost Domain was heavily suppressed.
• Hu Jiu left the room and fought off groups of swollen-bellied Ghost Slaves in the abandoned building.
• Hu Jiu developed an unnatural hunger that persisted even after he covered himself with a supernatural shield.
• Hu Jiu resisted the urge to eat the walls and floor, then heard a voice asking why he was not eating.
• Hu Jiu attacked a nearby ragged man with ghost fire, but the man ate the flames and demanded more.
• Hu Jiu turned his gaze on the man as frost descended.

Hu Jiu descended through a strange building, evading dangerous beings before confronting Ares, who claimed he had been trapped there for months despite Hu Jiu arriving less than an hour ago. After defeating Ares, Hu Jiu heard him offer information about how to leave.

• Hu Jiu escaped the man who devoured supernatural powers and curses, then passed a silent red-clad Fierce Ghost on the third floor.
• Ares attacked Hu Jiu with a longsword, then accused him of carving words into his body and leaving him unable to communicate with others.
• Hu Jiu questioned Ares about other intelligent beings and was startled when Ares claimed he had lived there for half a year or a year.
• Ares attacked again, and Hu Jiu kicked and punched him into a wall before a rope hoisted him up.
• Ares silently asked Hu Jiu whether he wanted to know how to leave.

Hu Jiu learned from Ares that collapsing enough malevolent ghosts might free the building from its confinement, then encountered a ghostly glutton and attacked it with gold bullets and a Golden Corpse Bag. He left the glutton trapped in the bags and began beating it, but had not yet learned whether it could be destroyed.

• Ares told Hu Jiu that the building had endless floors and that its confinement might disappear if the number of active malevolent ghosts fell far enough.
• Hu Jiu restrained Ares again and continued down through the building, ignoring or easily handling the ghosts he encountered.
• Hu Jiu used a bead to lure the glutton, then discovered that gold bullets could hurt it even though it could chew nearly anything.
• Hu Jiu tripped the glutton, trapped it inside two Golden Corpse Bags, and struck its head with a thick stick until it begged him to stop.

Hu Jiu escaped the endlessly shifting building through a supernatural door and entered a gray expanse crowded with ghosts. Following them to an enormous black door, he glimpsed more doors nested behind it before his vision was forcibly cut off and his eyes began to bleed.

• Hu Jiu beat and killed a scruffy freak who could not remember his name or explain where he was.
• Hu Jiu explored the shifting building and concluded that eliminating enough Fierce Ghosts to escape would be impractical.
• Hu Jiu used a rusty master key to open a door he had drawn on a wall and stepped into a gray, hazy place filled with ghosts.
• Hu Jiu disguised himself as a ghost and followed the crowd toward an enormous, decaying black door.
• Hu Jiu looked through the door and saw more enormous black doors behind it, but his vision was cut off and his eyes became bloodshot.

Hu Jiu passed through a series of enormous doors and reached a graveyard where the earth tried to bury him. There, he encountered the gatekeepers Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon, and the chapter ended with Corpse Demon demanding Zhao Feng help subdue him.

• Hu Jiu used the master key to pass through several enormous black doors, finding fewer and more terrifying ghosts beyond each one.
• Hu Jiu entered a graveyard, escaped the living earth by hovering, and approached a brand-new fifth door.
• Corpse Demon emerged from a grave, demanded Hu Jiu identify himself, and attacked him with bone spikes.
• Zhao Feng arrived, introduced himself as a gatekeeper, and said Hu Jiu's identity needed to be examined.
• Hu Jiu dodged Corpse Demon's next attack and summoned a pumpkin hood, prompting Corpse Demon to order Zhao Feng to help take him down.

Hu Jiu easily defeated Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon while demanding to know where he was and what the door was for. When Corpse Demon refused to break the rules and insisted Hu Jiu submit to inspection, Zhao Feng argued that they could not stop him from leaving.

• Hu Jiu shrugged off Zhao Feng’s bloody handprints and repelled Corpse Demon’s attacks, then used one of Corpse Demon’s bone spikes to send him crashing into a grave.
• Hu Jiu pressed his advantage against Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon, who coordinated their defense but grew increasingly afraid.
• Zhao Feng told Corpse Demon to wake another ghost, but Hu Jiu forced the malicious ghost back into its grave and restrained it with curses.
• Hu Jiu demanded to know where he was and what the door was for, but Corpse Demon refused to answer and insisted Hu Jiu accept an inspection and a restraining curse.
• Zhao Feng rebuked Corpse Demon for provoking Hu Jiu and said they should not risk their lives trying to enforce the rules.

Hu Jiu confronted Corpse Demon and Zhao Feng to learn about their organization and the door, but they refused and attacked him. He captured Corpse Demon with the Pumpkin Head Mask and knocked Zhao Feng down, only for Zhao Feng to warn that a vicious Fierce Ghost had escaped as a dazzling light filled the area.

• Corpse Demon and Zhao Feng threatened Hu Jiu and refused to answer his questions, then attacked him with bone spikes and the graves around them.
• Hu Jiu vanished, and Corpse Demon summoned a corpse to search for him while Zhao Feng urged them to retreat and find reinforcements.
• Hu Jiu reappeared and dodged their renewed attack, then controlled Corpse Demon by dropping a Pumpkin Head Mask over his head.
• Hu Jiu kicked Zhao Feng down and forced the soil and Fierce Ghosts back into the graves.
• Zhao Feng warned Hu Jiu that a vicious Fierce Ghost had escaped, and a dazzling light suddenly illuminated the area.

Hu Jiu captured the Bulb Monster and discovered that Zhao Feng had lost his memories, then entered a numbered-door corridor. After testing door 200 and encountering a dangerous arm behind it, Hu Jiu shut the door and continued cautiously.

• Hu Jiu captured the Bulb Monster in a mirrored cube, unaffected by its corrupting light, and confirmed that Zhao Feng could not remember anything about the place.
• Hu Jiu agreed to let Zhao Feng go, then removed his head and put it in a sack with the Corpse Demon.
• Hu Jiu opened the fifth door and entered a vast corridor lined with numbered black doors, arriving through door 167.
• Hu Jiu saw someone leave door 200, then tried to open it with his key after the stranger had gone.
• A bloodstained arm thrust through the gap and attacked Hu Jiu, who struck it with his hanging rope before shutting the door as something slammed against it from inside.

Hu Jiu explored a corridor of numbered black doors, where supernatural suppression grew stronger, then hid when a stitched monster and a doll-carrying girl detected an unknown presence. After the monster summoned his superior, Tianxuan arrived, leaving Hu Jiu concealed and waiting to learn what would happen next.

• Hu Jiu continued down the corridor until the increasing supernatural suppression made him decide not to go farther.
• Hu Jiu hid in the wall as a stitched monster walked past and knocked on a massive black door.
• A little girl emerged with a doll, searched for the stranger's traces, and told the stitched monster that someone had left an aura behind.
• Hu Jiu withdrew quietly while the stitched monster reported the discovery and later announced that Tianxuan would arrive.
• Tianxuan reached the corridor, and the stitched monster respectfully greeted him as Teacher Tianxuan.

Hu Jiu entered the No. 0 Door and discovered it led to an island in the real world, but escaped when Tianxuan trapped the area in a Ghost Domain. Back at Headquarters, Hu Jiu asked Fu Youhua to investigate the island, and Fu Youhua said he had been under pressure as head of Headquarters.

• Hu Jiu sensed Tianxuan nearby, but Tianxuan ordered the stitched monster to retreat and fled before they met.
• The stitched monster followed Tianxuan’s order and hurried back into his room.
• Hu Jiu entered the half-open No. 0 Door, where Tianxuan and a crowd confronted him and Tianxuan used a wooden stake to form a Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu escaped upward and discovered that the doors stood on an island surrounded by sea, then memorized the area’s features.
• A passenger on an international flight captured Hu Jiu flying through the clouds, but her video drew little attention after she posted it online.
• Hu Jiu returned to Headquarters, described the island to Fu Youhua, and asked him to investigate it discreetly; Fu Youhua mentioned the pressure of leading Headquarters.

Hu Jiu turned down Fu Youhua’s suggestion that he become Head of Headquarters, taught new Ghost Tamers, and investigated the location of the No. 0 Door. The chapter ended with Zheng Li breaking into Hu Jiu’s home and suffering a supernatural attack on his intestines.

• Fu Youhua complained about his workload and suggested Hu Jiu become Head of Headquarters, but Hu Jiu refused because he did not want the responsibilities.
• Hu Jiu restocked the Research Department’s supernatural item warehouse and taught new Ghost Tamers practical ways to use the supernatural and delay their ghosts’ resurgence.
• A Headquarters staff member gave Hu Jiu a file identifying Star-Time Island as the location of the No. 0 Door, and Hu Jiu learned of the island’s abandoned, haunted history.
• Hu Jiu asked Fu Youhua about activity on the US-Canada border and worried that the Eternal Night Organization would retaliate.
• Zheng Li broke into Hu Jiu’s apparently empty home in Linjiang City and felt his intestines swelling and thrashing inside him.

Zheng Li broke into Hu Jiu’s home and was torn apart by the scarlet eye, which Hu Jiu studied and named the [Revival Eye]. Interrogating Zheng Li’s surviving brain revealed that rumors about Hu Jiu’s treasure had prompted the burglary, and Hu Jiu suspected someone was spreading them with bad intentions.

• Zheng Li entered Hu Jiu’s mansion, where his intestines escaped and the room transformed around him.
• The scarlet eye caused Zheng Li’s body parts and clothing to come alive, leaving him dismembered while his fierce ghost remained attached to a piece.
• Hu Jiu emerged, took the scarlet eye from the ceiling, tested its revival and activation abilities, and embedded it in his left palm as the [Revival Eye].
• Hu Jiu interrogated Zheng Li’s surviving brain and learned he had come to investigate rumors of a supernatural item that eased the negative effects of taming ghosts.
• Hu Jiu suspected someone was deliberately spreading the rumors and decided he had no interest in denying them or avoiding the trouble they might bring.

Hu Jiu advertised his supernatural item on the Ghost Tamer Forum and created a Monkey’s Paw from Zheng Li’s severed hand. When the Prophet visited to recruit him into Big Dipper, he explained that the organization’s year-end assessments offered major rewards and warned that the Ghost World’s invasion threat was forcing its factions to unite.

• Hu Jiu posted that he possessed an item that could remove the side effects of controlling ghosts and offered it for a steep, negotiable price.
• Hu Jiu transformed Zheng Li’s severed hand into a wish-granting Monkey’s Paw with dangerous consequences.
• After two quiet days, the Prophet visited Hu Jiu and asked whether his supernatural item was real, but refused to make a wish.
• The Prophet invited Hu Jiu to join Big Dipper and described its year-end assessments and prizes.
• Hu Jiu questioned the Prophet’s motives and voiced concern about Big Dipper’s factional infighting.
• The Prophet admitted that recruiting Hu Jiu would advance his standing, then said the Ghost World’s approaching invasion required Big Dipper to unite.

Hu Jiu considered the Prophet’s offer to join the Big Dipper, then demonstrated the Monkey’s Paw to Zhang Si. Zhang Si’s wish delayed his ghost’s revival by turning him into a living stone statue, leaving Hu Jiu to explain that he might live for another hundred years.

• The Prophet gave Hu Jiu a letter of recommendation to the Big Dipper, and Hu Jiu returned to Headquarters to discuss the offer with Fu Youhua.
• Zhang Si approached Hu Jiu to make a deal for the supernatural item he had advertised on the forum.
• Hu Jiu explained the Monkey’s Paw’s wish-granting rule and warned Zhang Si that his original request to prevent his ghost from ever reviving was too broad and risky.
• Zhang Si offered two vicious ghosts in exchange for delaying the ghost’s revival as much as possible and extending his life.
• The Monkey’s Paw turned Zhang Si into a living stone statue, and Hu Jiu explained that he would remain alive as long as the statue was not damaged.

Hu Jiu officially joined the Big Dipper and entered one of its main bases, where the organization’s suppressive force restricted his supernatural power. A veteran S-class member, Yan Lou, publicly challenged him to prove he deserved his rank, and Hu Jiu considered how to respond.

• Hu Jiu asked Headquarters to take away the cursed statue, claiming its victim was a living Ghost Tamer who needed to be saved.
• Fu Youhua completed Hu Jiu’s formal paperwork, giving him a special mission as grounds to join the Big Dipper and leave it later if necessary.
• Hu Jiu opened the Prophet’s letter of recommendation and followed a strange path to a Big Dipper base.
• Hu Jiu passed the base’s identity inspection and began completing the membership formalities while feeling its force suppress his supernatural power.
• Yan Lou stopped Hu Jiu and challenged him to a spar, arguing that Hu Jiu had to prove his S-class strength to earn the members’ respect.